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Hangzhou police find ‘ghost’ behind haunted public toilet
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POLICE in Hangzhou finally solved a ghostly puzzle about a “haunted” public toilet inside a neighborhood.
For months, residents living in the Dongqingxiang area reported that they heard the horrifying sound of a baby crying coming from the toilet every day about 3am.
Some said it had been that way since around the Qingming Festival, or the tomb-sweeping day, which falls in early April. Chinese visit their relatives’ graves to pay tribute on that day.
Neighborhood police officer Shen Hong finally decided to check on the puzzling reports.
During his investigation, he found a senior resident who told him he remembered the toilet used to be very shabby about 30 years ago and a child was drowned in its cesspit then.
Carrying a flashlight in one hand, the officer visited the toilet himself in the wee hours of Tuesday.
About 3am, he did hear a baby crying. But he also found the sound came from a room at the administrative office next to the toilet building, not from the toilet.
It turned out a sanitation worker living there had set the sound of a baby laughing as her mobile phone alarm to wake her up every day for her early-morning work shift. But the alarm ringtone sounded more like a baby crying because of the poor quality of her mobile phone, police said.
The woman said she had moved into the city to stay with her husband around the Qingming Festival and soon found a job as a cleaner there.
With the help of the officer, the woman changed her troubling ringtone to one based on a popular pop song.
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